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SIN, CRIME AND
KATRINA
FEED ME MASSA' GUMMINT! BOSS MAN SAVE
ME!
By:
Nathanael
The massive dislocations from Katrina have revealed
the endemic criminal nature of the New Orleans
underclass. Having been born and raised in Greater New
Orleans (first in NO on Fern St. off St. Charles Ave.
near Carrollton Avenue, then in Metairie on Page Dr. off
Veterans Blvd., then in Gretna on Colony Rd. off the
Belle Chase Highway and a graduate of De La Salle High
School on St. Charles Ave.), it is irrefutable that
the majority of crime in NOLA originates in the black
community. Yes, NOLA is poverty and crime riddled but no
worse than in DC, Detroit, Oak Cliff-South Dallas and
others.
So why has the "black crime problem" now emerged in
certain local Dallas conversations? Could it be that the
criminal element was not informed that Highland Park and
University Park were off limits just like Audubon Place
near Tulane University?
Is it really a "black problem" or is the root cause
something other? The liberal explanation that "poverty
and crime" are due to unfunded job programs, inadequate
redistributionist welfare, lack of education, historical
prejudice or mean spirited non-blacks is empty of truth
and beyond old.
The visible crime problem telecast from NOLA actually
had two faces. One was obvious and local. The other was
subtle and pandemic. It chilled the soul to watch so
many folks crying out... "The government has done
nothing for me. Feed me. Give me shelter. Take care of
me. I’ll do whatever you tell me to do."
Katrina has laid open the nation’s systemic embrace
of government as creator-protector-master. The major
media and academia have collaborated by tilling,
watering, weeding and fertilizing this socialist cancer
whenever possible. It was the Democratic icons FDR and
LBJ who first instituted American Communism and now the
whole GOP, except for Ron Paul, are willing participants
in collectivist theft and forced redistribution.
Rich and poor are equally addicted. The dependant
poor, illiterate or not, think they are owed something
from the government and The Man. They are not. The rich,
having been forced to pay outrageous, confiscatory and
illegal taxes, think it is the government’s job to take
care of and remove the poor from their sight. That job
never was and still is not the role of Constitutional
government.
Our urbanized, techno-society has resulted in the
majority being unable to provide for themselves. Coming
face to face with that vulnerability is one way to
understand the societal chaos after Katrina. Also, the
previously common exposure to the healthy core values of
rural life with its connection to the Creator’s Creation
has been lost. What had once been self-sufficiency
accompanied by the daily accomplishment of growing or
doing something tangible has all but disappeared.
The small farming communities in America’s Tornado
Alley do not degenerate into lawlessness after weather
catastrophes. The Amish have neither a rampant crime
problem nor do they demand government handouts if
disaster happens. An insatiable appetite for the empty
wealth of celebrity is now the common American reality.
"Things" have become preeminent.
America’s poverty-crime-welfare-illiteracy-morality
problem is primarily theological and derivatively
political. But, the American pulpits have been darkened,
its voice self-muzzled, no true refuge can be found and
they do the bidding of the Local/State/Federal/UN
Government. Any 501-c3,
non-profit corporate church has organized itself as
a wholly owned subsidiary of the Corporate State, its
creator and master.
Politically speaking…
America has surrendered its freedom and
responsibilities for a gilded cage on a socialist,
techno-plantation. The Constitution has been buried.
You, your children, your vehicles, your fiat currency,
your gold, your property, your marriage, your business,
your church corporation...everything you think you "own"
has been appropriated by the State. At best you only
rent the stuff.
Why is it the obligation of the
citizens from Iowa, Nevada, Oregon, Maine and other
states to pay for Katrina’s damage brought about by the
insane housing decisions of the residents of New
Orleans? The city is underneath sea level and dead in
the middle of the Mississippi River’s alluvial flood
plain. Only the Amazon flows more water than the
Mississippi and life-threatening hurricanes come to the
Gulf of Mexico every year. Ignorance of this inevitable
calamity cannot be used as an excuse.
Now that inundation has come, where in the
Constitution is the option or the obligation of the
FedGov to crank up the debt machine and flood the place
with fake-money FRN’s? Compassion and assistance for
those who have suffered in this disaster is right,
proper and Biblical. It is for the willing individuals,
relatives and groups of individuals to respond. Nowhere
in the Constitution is it mandated or optional for the
FedGov to rebuild New Orleans, much less to have
everyone else pay for it.
The only sensible, non-communist way for New Orleans
to be rebuilt would be as free city, as in Hong Kong or
Monaco. Michael S.
Rozeff on Lew Rockwell does an excellent job of
explaining the benefits of such an act of freedom in "The
Gulf Coast – What Next?" The free market will work
every time, a lot quicker and much less costly than
Soviet Commands from the Kremlin on the Potomac.
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It is the un-Constitutional US FedGov disaster that needs
permanent fixing. The problem of protecting one’s personal
wealth and resurrecting true liberty dims with each Supreme
Court session, every election of spineless Congress-people and
the pre-selection of Imperial Presidents from the neo-Fascist
Republicans or paleo-Communist Democrats. The first step
toward restoration of liberty would be the re-education of
basic truths and Constitutional principles. That effort will
not come from the bowels of our defacto rulers.
Theologically speaking…
Socialism, confiscation of the people’s resources and
redistribution to the few, is grand theft by government. It
violates the Eighth Commandment – "Thou shall not
steal." The pulpit stands silent when it should be
thundering against this systemic sin.
The civil laws that have systematized the crimes of
stealing, robbery, fraud, unfair takings, theft, embezzlement
and etcetera are based in this Scripture. Men know this as
sin. Man was created knowing this.
For those who might argue that Romans 13 gives government
immunity from criticism and the demand for just dealings,
please consider what Jesus said to a ruler of men in the
Gospel of Mark.
Mark 10:17-23 (New American Standard
Bible)
The Rich Young Ruler
17 As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran
up to Him and knelt before Him, and asked Him, "Good
Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
18 And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me
good? No one is good except God alone.
19 "You know the commandments, 'DO NOT MURDER, DO
NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, DO NOT STEAL, DO NOT BEAR FALSE
WITNESS, Do not defraud, HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER.'"
20 And he said to Him, "Teacher, I have kept all
these things from my youth up."
21 Looking at him, Jesus felt a love for him and
said to him, "One thing you lack: go and sell all you
possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure
in heaven; and come, follow Me."
22 But at these words he was saddened, and he went
away grieving, for he was one who owned much property.
23 And Jesus, looking around, said to His
disciples, "How hard it will be for those who are wealthy
to enter the kingdom of God!"
The local and national crime problem is a direct expression
of the human sin problem that originated with the Fall of Man
in the Garden. This elemental Biblical doctrine - all men
without exception are the fallen, sinful seed of Adam and in
dire need of a Saviour - is anathema to the seeker-friendly
Rick Warrens of today. An easy argument can be made from the
Bible that the sin character of man is amplified when people
cluster in large cities.
The American institutional church hides from the Biblical
doctrine of sin and the fallen nature of man. The New
Testament clearly speaks of this reality.
Romans 5:8-15 (New American Standard
Bible)
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in
that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, having now been justified by His
blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through
Him.
10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled
to God through the death of His Son, much more, having
been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
11 And not only this, but we also exult in God
through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now
received the reconciliation.
12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered
into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread
to all men, because all sinned--
13 for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin
is not imputed when there is no law.
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until
Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness
of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to
come.
15 But the free gift is not like the
transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the
many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by
the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the
many.
1 Corinthians 15:20-27 (New American Standard
Bible)
20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead,
the first fruits of those who are asleep.
21 For since by a man came death, by a man also
came the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all
will be made alive.
23 But each in his own order: Christ the first
fruits, after that those who are Christ's at His coming,
24 then comes the end, when He hands over the
kingdom to the God and Father, when He has abolished all
rule and all authority and power.
25 For He must reign until He has put all His
enemies under His feet.
26 The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
27 For HE HAS PUT ALL THINGS IN SUBJECTION UNDER
HIS FEET But when He says, "All things are put in
subjection," it is evident that He is excepted who put all
things in subjection to Him.
The modern American Evangelical church also worships mammon
in direct violation of the First Commandment – "I am the
LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out
of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before
Me."
The overt worship of money found in Joel Osteen’s Lakewood
Church in Houston, Kenneth Copeland Ministries, Benny Hinn,
Creflo Dollar and other Word of Faith preachers are not the
only examples. There is the subtle, studied worship of
affluence and power found at "respectable" Dallas institutions
such as Park Cities Presbyterian Church, Highland Park
Methodist Church, Park Cities Baptist, St. Michael and All
Angels and others.
The Sermon
on the Mount and numerous other passages in the Bible
instruct those who have to share with those who do not. In
situations such as Katrina, Followers
of the Way of Jesus are to give and do what they can. They
are to be cognizable as His
Bride, doing peaceful and righteous acts, and preparing
the way for His Kingdom, ruled by the Prince of Peace. Acts of
mercy in helping Believers and non-believers alike are
examples of common
grace and fulfilling the Matthew
28 Great Commission.
The liberal denominations run from the doctrine of sin and
Biblical Truth. The high profile evangelical preachers are
enrapt with power, image and money. Many in the supposedly
Reformed denominations have an academic theology disconnected
from the real world and are unwilling to rock the boat.
Jesus did not flinch from making very serious condemnations
of the rulers in His day. See Matthew
23 and Luke
11.
Matthew 23:23-27 (New American Standard
Bible)
23 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected
the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and
faithfulness; but these are the things you should have
done without neglecting the others.
24 "You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and
swallow a camel!
25 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
For you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but
inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence.
26 "You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of
the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may
become clean also.
27 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
For you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside
appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men's
bones and all uncleanness.
Luke 11:44-49 (New American Standard
Bible)
44 "Woe to you! For you are like concealed tombs,
and the people who walk over them are unaware of it."
45 One of the lawyers said to Him in reply,
"Teacher, when You say this, You insult us too."
46 But He said, "Woe to you lawyers as well! For
you weigh men down with burdens hard to bear, while you
yourselves will not even touch the burdens with one of
your fingers.
47 "Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the
prophets, and it was your fathers who killed them.
48 "So you are witnesses and approve the deeds of
your fathers; because it was they who killed them, and you
build their tombs.
49 "For this reason also the wisdom of God said,
'I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of
them they will kill and some they will persecute,
And yet…the people are being consumed by governmental
thievery and mayhem, cultural pathology and an absence of
Biblical Truth being proclaimed about the current morass.
Are there any shepherds who will speak against this
shearing of the flock?
What say you R. C.
Sproul?
What say you Sinclair
Ferguson?
What say you Skip
Ryan?
What say you John
MacArthur?
What say you John
Piper?
What say you Alistair
Begg?
"Published originally at
EtherZone.com : republication allowed with this notice and
hyperlink intact."
Nathanael is self-employed and lives in Dallas,
Texas. He had only ever been a life long registered
Republican but changed to the Constitution Party in May
of 2004. It would jeopardize his career if his real name was
used, hence the pseudonym of Nathanael. He is a regular
columnist for Ether Zone.
Nathanael
can be reached at nathanael4551@yahoo.com
Published in the September 27, 2005 issue
of Ether Zone.
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